# Seasons of Blossom
**Seasons of Blossom** (청춘 블라썸; *Cheongchun Beullasseom*, literally *Youth Blossom*) is a South Korean webtoon written by Hongduck (홍덕) with art by NEMONE, serialized on Naver from June 26, 2020, and adapted into a 2022 Wavve live-action drama and a later animated series.[1](https://asianwiki.com/Seasons_of_Blossom) The story follows the friendship and love of 18-year-old students at a Korean high school, told as an omnibus in which each of the four seasons has a different protagonist.[2](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/63731/seasons-of-blossom)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Original webtoon | Written by Hongduck, illustrated by NEMONE; published from June 26, 2020 via Naver[1](https://asianwiki.com/Seasons_of_Blossom) |
| Length | 130 chapters, completed; four seasonal arcs named for flowers[3](https://welcon.kocca.kr/en/directory/content/seasons-of-blossom--6977) • [4](https://manhwa.com/manhwa/seasons-of-blossom/) |
| Live-action drama | Wavve web drama, 16 episodes of about 25 minutes, September 21 to November 2, 2022, Wednesdays at 17:00[2](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/63731/seasons-of-blossom) |
| Main cast | Seo Ji Hoon (Lee Ha Min), So Ju Yeon (Han So Mang), Kim Min Kyu (Lee Jae Min), Kang Hye Won (Yoon Bo Mi), Yoon Hyun Soo (Choi Jin Young)[5](https://www.soompi.com/article/1542862wpp/so-ju-yeon-seo-ji-hoon-kang-hye-won-kim-min-kyu-and-more-have-great-chemistry-at-script-reading-for-new-school-drama) |
| Adaptation change | The drama combined the webtoon's first two seasonal stories into one plot[6](https://www.soompi.com/article/1546771wpp/exclusive-interview-seasons-of-blossom-cast-talks-about-their-characters-school-lunches-favorite-music-and-more) |
| Animation | *Cheongchun Blossom: Uriui Bom* (청춘블라썸 : 우리의 봄), a 12-episode TV series that ran April 15 to July 29, 2026[7](https://donotaku.com/en/anime/cheongchun-blossom-uriui-bom) |
| Drama reception | 7.7/10 on IMDb from 304 votes[8](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23902344/) |
## Spoilers
### Plot
#### Season 1
Seoyeon [High School](https://www.edgepedia.org/high-school), 2016. In a classroom, Han So-mang (So Ju-yeon) keeps orbiting Lee Ha-min (Seo Ji-hoon), a quiet, talented art student who would rather be left alone. Six years later, in 2022, So-mang walks back into Seoyeon as a trainee teacher. The school has not forgotten what happened to Ha-min, and neither has she. The present-day students include Lee Jae-min (Kim Min-kyu), Ha-min's younger brother, now a senior, and his friends Kang Sun-hee (Oh Yoo-jin), Yoon Bo-mi, and Ahn Jin-young.
The flashbacks build the love story first. Ha-min is withdrawn, so So-mang drags him into the world, eventually pulling him into her art studio where he takes on his first free assignment. Their romance blooms over the summer of 2016, warm and awkward and ordinary. The series lets the audience fall for them before it lets on that the ending is already written: Ha-min dies, and everyone at school in 2022 knows it.
The reveal of how he dies lands in the middle of the run and reorganizes everything that came before. Ha-min's death is a suicide, and the series spends its second half dismantling the easy question of whose fault it was. So-mang has carried the guilt for six years. Jae-min has carried a different kind: he found Ha-min's diary, read it, and for a long time blamed So-mang, the girl his brother wrote about, for his death. Only gradually does he understand that So-mang was the one person who might have given Ha-min hope, not the person who took it away.
The present-day storyline gives the grief somewhere to go. Bo-mi and Jin-young circle each other while Sun-hee's own history with the past complicates the group, and Jae-min's hostility toward So-mang slowly turns into shared mourning. The two storylines braid together until the finale forces Jae-min to face the night itself.
**The sequence everyone remembers comes in episodes 9 and 10, the summer downpour.** So-mang and Ha-min are caught in the rain; she refuses to huddle under an umbrella, tosses both of them aside, grabs his hand, and pulls him running down the street until he is laughing out loud, probably for the first time in the whole series. Back at the art studio, they share their first kiss, and Ha-min finishes his free assignment: the painting of a man sitting hunched over, ankle-deep in water, with gigantic butterfly wings. It is beautiful and it is an omen, and the series knows it. The scene is mirrored in the present, where So-mang drops her own umbrella and lets the rain fall on her face, holding a memory that has become as painful as it is wonderful.
The finale closes both wounds. Jae-min learns the detail that breaks him: on the night Ha-min died, Ha-min had been waiting at home for his little brother, and Jae-min had gone to Sun-hee's house instead. He disappears from school and is found on a rooftop near Ha-min's grave, ashamed of the years he spent blaming everyone else. So-mang finds him and tells him the truth she has learned the hard way, that no single person is to blame, and she gives him the hug she wishes she had given Ha-min, promising they will remember and grieve together so he does not have to carry it alone.
The last scene is an imagined farewell. Ha-min appears to So-mang one final time, apologizes for turning a beautiful moment in time into heartbreaking memories, and asks her not to read his final letter, freeing her from the version of him that lives in the past. She says goodbye to him and to the summer with a farewell kiss, and steps out of Ha-min's shadow into her own life.
### Characters
Han So-mang (So Ju-yeon) is the series' spine and its only character who exists fully in both timelines, a girl in 2016 and a trainee teacher in 2022, whose warmth once reached Ha-min and whose guilt has kept her frozen ever since. So Ju-yeon plays both ages, and reviewers singled out the way her character visibly changes and grows across the six-year gap.
Lee Ha-min (Seo Ji-hoon) is the quiet art student of the 2016 timeline, gentle and closed-off, whose depression is drawn through small signs rather than speeches. His painting and his diary are the two objects the whole story turns around.
Lee Jae-min (Kim Min-kyu) is Ha-min's younger brother, angry and guarded, convinced for most of the series that So-mang is responsible for his brother's death. The director called him the most difficult character of the adaptation, since his attitudes and relationships were heavily changed in merging the webtoon's two arcs.
Kang Sun-hee (Oh Yoo-jin) is Jae-min's friend and classmate, part of the present-day triangle with Bo-mi and Jin-young, and a link back to the 2016 tragedy. Oh Yoo-jin, a fan of the original webtoon, worked to keep the character faithful to the source.
### Interpretations and controversies
The ending divided some viewers. Dramabeans' recap questioned the final imagined reunion as a bit of cheating, since So-mang hears words from Ha-min that she could not normally hear, and noted that the blue letter vanished from the scene, though the moment still landed as touching. Fans of the webtoon also debated the adaptation itself, since the drama folded the webtoon's separate "Bomi's Flower" and "Hamin's Flower" arcs into a single reordered 16-episode story, and Dramabeans found the transitions between the two storylines jarring in the final stretch. A recurring acting debate runs through audience reviews: the past-timeline leads were widely praised, while Kim Min-kyu's Jae-min was often called flat in emotionally charged scenes.
### Sequels, spin-offs, and adaptations
The series adapts the Naver webtoon, written by Hongduck and illustrated by Nemone, which ran from June 26, 2020 to March 31, 2023, with an official English translation on Webtoons from March 22, 2021 to June 12, 2023. The drama merges the webtoon's two arcs, "Bomi's Flower" and "Hamin's Flower," into one continuous story.
## The webtoon and its structure
The series is organized as four loosely linked arcs named for seasons and flowers: "Bomi's Flower" ([Spring](https://www.edgepedia.org/spring-season)), "Hamin's Flower" (Summer), "Autumn Flower" (Gaeul's Flower), and "Dong-chae's Flower" (Winter).[3](https://welcon.kocca.kr/en/directory/content/seasons-of-blossom--6977) The spring arc opens with a "fake romance" between Bomi and Jin-young, and later arcs deepen in tone.[3](https://welcon.kocca.kr/en/directory/content/seasons-of-blossom--6977) • [4](https://manhwa.com/manhwa/seasons-of-blossom/) Each arc centers on a different teenager, and the interconnected stories reframe characters who first appeared on the margins.[9](https://moonlighttoons.com/title/seasons-of-blossom)
Underneath the romance, the series takes up heavier subjects including bullying, family pressure, grief, and suicide-related material, which reviewers warn may surprise readers expecting a light school romance.[4](https://manhwa.com/manhwa/seasons-of-blossom/) • [9](https://moonlighttoons.com/title/seasons-of-blossom) The webtoon ran to 130 chapters and was collected in print volumes, including a fourth season published by Jaedam Media.[4](https://manhwa.com/manhwa/seasons-of-blossom/) • [10](https://www.goebc.kr/upload/wonmi-m/na/bbs_3326/2025/11/3020F753-AB00-065C-EB56-336197693CA7.pdf) An official English translation is available on WEBTOON.[4](https://manhwa.com/manhwa/seasons-of-blossom/)
## The 2022 drama
On March 17, 2022, the production company PlayList acquired the webtoon's rights from Naver Webtoon and produced it as an OTT drama.[11](https://kaomwc.clickn.co.kr/file/2139862771) The series was directed by Wang Hye-Ryung and produced by PlayList, PlayList Global, Jaedam, and Copus Korea, airing on Wavve from September 21 to November 2, 2022 in 16 episodes.[12](https://wiki.d-addicts.com/Seasons_of_Blossom) • [2](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/63731/seasons-of-blossom)
The drama depicts a butterfly effect set in motion by an incident six years earlier, in which a boy named Lee Ha Min took his own life and a girl, Han So Mang, was unable to stop him; in the present, the event begins to affect today's teenagers.[5](https://www.soompi.com/article/1542862wpp/so-ju-yeon-seo-ji-hoon-kang-hye-won-kim-min-kyu-and-more-have-great-chemistry-at-script-reading-for-new-school-drama) In the drama's timeline, Ha Min and So Mang attended Seoyeon High School in 2016, and six years later So Mang returns there as a trainee teacher, where she meets Lee Jae Min, Ha Min's younger brother.[1](https://asianwiki.com/Seasons_of_Blossom) Seo Ji Hoon plays the outwardly cheerful but cynical Ha Min, So Ju Yeon the timid but strong So Mang, Kim Min Kyu the popular Jae Min, Kang Hye Won the kind school queen Yoon Bo Mi, and Yoon Hyun Soo the tough-seeming but kind Choi Jin Young.[5](https://www.soompi.com/article/1542862wpp/so-ju-yeon-seo-ji-hoon-kang-hye-won-kim-min-kyu-and-more-have-great-chemistry-at-script-reading-for-new-school-drama)
## How the adaptation differs
The drama does not preserve the webtoon's four-arc omnibus structure. Actor Kim Min Kyu explained in a production interview that many changes were made to the characters' attitudes and relationships because two parts of the webtoon were adapted together, and that the director said Lee Jae Min became the most difficult character as a result of the adaptation.[6](https://www.soompi.com/article/1546771wpp/exclusive-interview-seasons-of-blossom-cast-talks-about-their-characters-school-lunches-favorite-music-and-more) Jaedam's Korean volume description likewise notes that the drama combines the original's first two seasonal stories.[13](https://minsdesk.com/seasons-of-blossom/) Readers of the original have pointed to this merging of arcs as the main difference from the webtoon, where the seasonal stories are clearly separated.[13](https://minsdesk.com/seasons-of-blossom/)
## Animation and related media
An animated adaptation, *Cheongchun Blossom: Uriui Bom* (청춘블라썸 : 우리의 봄), aired as a 12-episode TV series from April 15 to July 29, 2026, covering the teenagers' first love, friendship, and growing pains as the seasons change from spring to winter.[7](https://donotaku.com/en/anime/cheongchun-blossom-uriui-bom) An animation project had been listed in industry reporting on Naver Webtoon's video adaptations as early as a 2024 estimate.[14](https://msg.ebestsec.co.kr/eum/K_20230426_30920_820.pdf) The webtoon is also part of Jaedam Media's IP business, through which the publisher has signed 28 works for TV series or film production.[3](https://welcon.kocca.kr/en/directory/content/seasons-of-blossom--6977)
## References
1. [Seasons of Blossom, AsianWiki](https://asianwiki.com/Seasons_of_Blossom)
2. [Seasons of Blossom, TVmaze](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/63731/seasons-of-blossom)
3. [Seasons of Blossom, KOCCA WelCon Content Directory](https://welcon.kocca.kr/en/directory/content/seasons-of-blossom--6977)
4. [Seasons of Blossom, Manhwa.com](https://manhwa.com/manhwa/seasons-of-blossom/)
5. [So Ju Yeon, Seo Ji Hoon, Kang Hye Won, Kim Min Kyu, And More Have Great Chemistry At Script Reading For New School Drama, Soompi (August 30, 2022)](https://www.soompi.com/article/1542862wpp/so-ju-yeon-seo-ji-hoon-kang-hye-won-kim-min-kyu-and-more-have-great-chemistry-at-script-reading-for-new-school-drama)
6. [Exclusive Interview: "Seasons Of Blossom" Cast Talks About Their Characters, School Lunches, Favorite Music, And More, Soompi (September 26, 2022)](https://www.soompi.com/article/1546771wpp/exclusive-interview-seasons-of-blossom-cast-talks-about-their-characters-school-lunches-favorite-music-and-more)
7. [Seasons of Blossom (Cheongchun Blossom: Uriui Bom), DonOtaku](https://donotaku.com/en/anime/cheongchun-blossom-uriui-bom)
8. [Seasons of Blossom (TV Series 2022), IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23902344/)
9. [Seasons of Blossom, Moonlight Toons](https://moonlighttoons.com/title/seasons-of-blossom)
10. [2025 library acquisition list including 청춘 블라썸 시즌4 volumes, Jaedam](https://www.goebc.kr/upload/wonmi-m/na/bbs_3326/2025/11/3020F753-AB00-065C-EB56-336197693CA7.pdf)
11. [2025 webtoon industry report on PlayList's acquisition of 청춘 블라썸 rights, KAOMWC](https://kaomwc.clickn.co.kr/file/2139862771)
12. [Seasons of Blossom, DramaWiki](https://wiki.d-addicts.com/Seasons_of_Blossom)
13. [Seasons of Blossom, Min's Desk](https://minsdesk.com/seasons-of-blossom/)
14. [Naver Webtoon original video adaptation list, eBest Investment & Securities (April 26, 2023)](https://msg.ebestsec.co.kr/eum/K_20230426_30920_820.pdf)
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